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Good teachers 'don't need top degrees'

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Is too much emphasis placed on academic qualifications when deciding who would make a good teacher?

The University of Buckingham's Professor Alan Smithers and Labour MP Barry Sheerman discuss accepting those with a minimum of a second-class degree into the teaching profession.


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